Kinematograph camera and projecting apparatus.



W. OHIPPERPIELD.

KINEMATOGRAPH CAMERA AND PROJEGTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED APILZZ, 1913.

Patented Dec; 23, 1913.

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WALTER CHIPI BFI D F R O E GL SSl-QNQB- 33 IIeLU-M WA careers, or ronrnrnec'r, nnonann.

KINEMATOGRAZPH CAMERA AND PROJECTING.APPARATUS 1,082,305, Specification of Letters Patent. Patentgd 1913,

Application filed April 22 1913. Serial No. 762,810.

To all whom it may concern: from time to time as the roller is revolved- Be it known that I, VALTER CHIPPER- The raised portion or portions D of the FIELD, engineer, a subject of the King of roller B, (that is those segments which Great Britain, residing at Kmkora, have a greater radius than the normal diam- Woodlands avenue, Great Nelmes, Horneter of the roller) extend only in the dichurch, Romford, Essex, England, have iurection of the axis of the roller, while the vented certain new and useful Improvepressure roller G which had a continuous ments in Kinematograph Cameras and Pro' surface both in the direction of its axis and 'jecting Apparatus, and of'which the followin the direction of its periphery was carried in is a specification. below the lower end of a gate, and with such his invention relates to kinematograph an arrangement it has been found that the cameras and projectin apparatus, in which film has been liable to curl either around a film passes over 'a wa l of a stationary ms the feed or pressure roller, instead of keep,- ing or frame of the operating mechanism mg to the desired ipath when the film i5 and between said wall and a yielding gate first inserted in the ceding mechanism. To prior to being engaged by the feeding deprevent such an occurrence both the rollers vice, which atter consists of a pressure B and C are constructed in multiple, it may rolleryieldingly supported by the said stabe induplex form, by forming them with a tionary frame, and a feed roller carried in central cut away portion B and C restationary bearin s in the said stationary spectively thus leaving two projecting side 75 case or frame. T c said case or frame carportions of greater diameter than the cenries mechanism by which said feed roller is tral portion. The front wall F of the case driven, and between which said rollers the is thenformed with two independent aperfilm asses, tures, a central dividing strip J being left,

The object of the present invention is to and through these apertures the raised pe-. 80 provide means to prevent the possibility of ripheral portions of the roller B project,- the the film leaving the desired path and becomsaid strip forming a continuous surface ing entangled with the mechanism. with the wall F.

- The invention isillustratcd in the accom- K is the ate between which and the wall panying drawings, in which, F the film passes, and this gate is carried 85 Figurel is a sectional side elevation showby a frame L, having bearings in which the ing the feed rollers in their operative popressure roller G is supported, the said sit1on. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the frame L being pivoted at M to the frame A. gate detached from the camera mechanism, This gate is of such a length that it extends and showing the pressure roller in position below the periphery of the pressure roller G 90 with relation thereto. Fig. 3 is a sectional and is formed, in a similar manner to the plan of Fig. 1. walls F with two apertures through which The apparatus comprises a frame or case the periphery .of the enlarged portions of A carrying in stationary bearings a feed the roller G project to co-act with the 40 roller B driven in a well known manner by raised peripheral portions D of the feed 5 spur gearing 1 from suitable mechanism, roller B to feed the film, a strip Not the which also operates a revolving shutter, a saidgatelying in the recess G betweentheenpressure roller C being yieldingly supported larged portions of the pressure roller C, said rom the said frame and adapted to operate strip forming a continuous surface with the in conjunction with raised portions D on the gate, over which surface the film passes. It we feed roller B, to feed the film G between will thus be seen that should the film have the wall F and a gate H and intermittently a tendency to curl around the feed roller B past an exposure aperture E in the front it will be prevented from so doing by' the wall F, strip J in the wall F and in a like manner 1 It has been usual in such apparatus to the film will be prevented from curling 105 form the rollers B and C with continuous around the pressure roller C by the strip surfaces in the direction of theirhxcs and N of the gate K. Y Obviously the, feed and to form the wall F of the casing with an pressure rollers may each be divided into aperture through which the raised periphmore than two acting portions, and if'deeral portions D of the roller B project sired may be composed of separate rollers 110 fixed on to a shaft with distancing pieces between them. What'I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A paratus of the type specified for taking mematograph pictures and projecting thesame; comprising in combination a feed roller consisting of a plurality of acting portions spatially arranged in the direction of its-axis, said acting portions projecting into apertures in the front wall of the frame carrying the feed roller driving mechanism,

nism frame and consisting of actin portions spatially arranged in the direction of its axis and of a number corresponding to said acting portions of said feed roller, and a gate having apertures through which the acting portions. of said dpressure roller pass to co-act with said fee rollerto feed the film, a strip formin part of said ate and in face almement herewith divi ing adjacent apertures in said gate and passing between a jacent acting portions 0 said pressure roller. v

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the resence of two witnesses. WALT R CHIPPERFIELD.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM A. MARSHALL,

HERBERT D. JAMESON. 

